Even though solar power is booming, a new gas power project threatens to lock #Senegal into buying expensive fossil power for 30 more years. Switzerland’s SERV appears poised to support the project with an export risk guarantee. Read my blog post on the case at open.substack.com/pub/swisscli....
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
"From the US you get forced into trade deals promising a future of burning fossil fuels whose price is subject to wildly destructive US adventurism. From China you get reliably cheap EVs and green tech to generate renewables"- giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @alanbeattie.bsky.social
Trump's Big Beautiful Own Goal in Alaska: Not a single company bid for new offshore oil and gas exploration opportunities in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, dealing a blow to President Trump’s ‘drill, baby drill,’ agenda. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...
The sun won’t always shine and the wind won’t always blow, they said. Well guess what: #LNG doesn’t always flow. And while the wind will blow again tomorrow and its power can be stored in batteries, the same isn’t true for LNG. www.politico.eu/article/worl...
Activists today submitted the NGO demands to the board of the Swiss export credit agency, #SERV. They displayed clocks running late to highlight that by delaying the transition from gas to clean energy, Switzerland is behind the times. For more info: swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/financing-...
40 Swiss and international NGOs today called on the Swiss government to honor its climate pledges and stop financing international gas power plants immediately. "Switzerland must no longer be among the small group of countries that sabotage international climate policy", they argued.
"In the long run, if we don’t address the root cause, which is the substantial amount of emissions from fossil fuels, insurance will no longer be available", @cadavejones.bsky.social points out in this great WaPo portrait. www.washingtonpost.com/post-next/in...
#GoodNews: #MunichRe recently became the first reinsurance company to restrict cover for new #LNG terminals. The restrictions are narrow but mark an important breakthrough. Which insurer will take the next step? Read my comment on the #SwissClimateRambles blog at open.substack.com/pub/swisscli....
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Rather than depending on lunatic Putin for Russian gas or lunatic Trump for American gas, perhaps Europe should develop its own domestic power supply and be free of lunatics entirely.
No Kings is projected on to a mountainside above the town’s lights
Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.
„Spirit of Dialogue“? Bullshit! As @campaxorg.bsky.social show with a projection on the ski slopes of #Davos right now, the WEF and its guest of honor Donald Trump stand for the Spirit of Plutocracy.
"You didn't give me the peace prize therefore I can start any war I want" is true lunacy.
The inability of the American media to treat this man's clear unfitness for office with anything resembling seriousness will go down as a black mark in history.
Fuckers
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🚨 BREAKING: New York and Hawaiʻi are seeking to make fossil fuel companies pay for skyrocketing home insurance rates in the wake of wildfires and other extreme weather events linked to climate change.
Yes, that does say it all.
UBS is a platinum sponsor of Zurich's first climate week. Meanwhile, the Swiss bank rolls back its climate commitments, still finances fossil fuel expansion and ranks last in @shareaction.bsky.social's latest environmental scorecard. My latest blog at swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/ubs-europe...
And don’t forget, Machado stole Trump’s Nobel!
I still remember Ma telling me five years ago that if these insurrectionists on January 6th were Black, then they would be dead. Five years later, they are almost all alive, out of jail, and their guy is back in the White House. If that’s not White privilege, then I don’t know what is.
The astonishing self-harm of European auto industry continues. Trying to turn your home market into a museum for last century cars means you might squeeze a few more years of revenue from them, but at the cost of obsolescence as consumers at home and in export markets vote with their feet.
🚨 BREAKING: We’re outside the Royal Courts of Justice on the day that 100+ Filipino claimants are suing Shell in the UK, for the damage caused by Typhoon Odette (over 400 dead, 1.4m homes lost) - in a first-of-its-kind legal case!
Shell: pay your debt for Typhoon Odette 🇵🇭🔥
Amazing: Solar prices have dropped so much that Pakistan is now facing an #LNG glut and has asked Qatar to sell off 24 cargoes which it contracted. #StrandedAssets www.thenews.com.pk/latest/13518...
HUGE WIN: UK Government pulls $1.15bn in support for the controversial Mozambique LNG project - putting pressure on the Dutch Govt to pull out too.
@financialtimes.com story: www.ft.com/content/b2ea...
No joke: Switzerland to approve export credits for a giant new gas power plant in #SaudiArabia – the 10th such project since it pledged to no longer finance fossil fuels at the Glasgow COP. My latest post on #SwissClimateRambles calls out the responsible political actors. tinyurl.com/CHKlimaZerst...
Swiss politicians file a criminal complaint over a Rolex table clock and engraved gold bar presented to President Trump by business executives .
China exported $60B of batteries Jan-Sept 2025 - by comparison US exported $29B of LNG in 2024. And while all that LNG went up in smoke, those batteries are going to keep working for many years
